Definition:

Two-pronged fastener featuring a round or decorative top. Prongs are inserted through the surface and opened butterfly-style.

One of the easiest and most versatile of the embelishments, there are hundreds of shapes, colours, and sizes; if you can imagine it, you can probably get a brad that shape.
These are the first few that I pulled out. Basic shapes are excellent to have to use as fasteners as well as embellishments, some of the fancier shapes you won't use as often but pack a lot of punch.

Some ways to use brads;

• - attach pieces at the corners
• - Create borders, shapes or patterns
• - wind twine or ribbon around
• - flower centers

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• What ways have you used brads in your projects? Brads can be used in so many ways. I have tons on hand in all sorts of colors. They can be used as a way to fasten ribbons to a page. I cut a length of ribbon and add a brad through both ends of the ribbon to attach to a page. I use tags alot and use brads all the time to secure these to a page. Brads are normally used as fasteners to add something to a page, but my favorite technique to use brads is simply as a stand alone embellishment. For example, if my pages is missing a little something in an area I will add a few colored brads as little "sprinkles" on the page. Or I will add a row of 3 brads to the spot. It really does the trick!

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I used brads as decoration. Originally it had what looked like belt buckle holes. I filled them in with some decoration.


It's holding the vellum to the page on this layout. The different color brads match colors in the paper.
Contribution by Heather Gibbs, Heather's Scrapbook's